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When it comes to learning, EGA is all about options. EGA members can choose from array of courses for a variety of disciplines and skill levels. Whether you’re looking to learn with a group, take an individual correspondence course, or learn online, we’ve got you covered. Not a member yet? Join here.
Recently added: Online Class: Box Making: Parisian Patisserie by Sarah de Rousset-Hall | Online Class: B Sampler with Dawn Donnelly | Online Class: Candy Cane Christmas Decoration with Emma Broughton | GCC: Hearts for You with Denise Harrington Pratt | GCC: Fall Colors with Margaret Kinsey | GCC: Symphony with Barbara Kershaw | Virtual Lecture Series
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GCCs offer low cost, high quality learning experiences for groups of up to 20 participants.
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Group Correspondence Courses
Group Correspondence Courses offer low cost, high quality learning experiences in a variety of techniques for groups of up to 20 participants plus their group coordinator. Gather a group of friends and register for a Group Correspondence Course today! More information about the process, including registration forms can be found on the link below.
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ICCs offer EGA members intense, personalized study under the supervision of certified teachers.
Individual Correspondence Courses
Individual Correspondence Courses offer EGA members intense, personalized study under the supervision of teachers selected for their outstanding needlework skills and knowledge. The courses are in-depth study programs dealing with a wide range of embroidery techniques and disciplines at various skill levels.
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Online classes are a convenient way to take your embroidery to the next level.
Online Courses
Online Studio classes are a convenient way for students to take their embroidery to the next level. Studio classes take place on EGA’s website and in an environment where the student can read, review and download lessons, discuss with other students, and ask questions directly to the teacher on the discussion group for each class.
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We open up 3 or 4 GCC courses for individuals to take periodically.
Lightning Rounds
Our GCC Lightning Rounds are three or four of our Group Correspondence Courses that have been hand-picked by our Education Department and made available for individual EGA members to register without a group for a limited time. Lightning Rounds are a great opportunity for Members-At-Large and small EGA chapters that have difficulty filling a larger group in order to take a Group Correspondence Course.
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Lectures about culturally diverse embroidery techniques and textile traditions.
Virtual Lecture Series
As part of our Virtual Lecture Series, on the second Saturday of every month, we host a guest lecturer to discuss textile traditions and culturally diverse embroidery techniques.
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Click here to see our Skill Level Definitions
EGA Skill Level Definitions
Basic: No experience with the technique being taught is necessary.
Intermediate: Knowledge of basic stitches, materials, and their use in the technique being taught is required.
Advanced: Ability to execute simple and difficult stitches in the technique is required. The student should also have knowledge of color and design that will allow exploration and creativity.
All levels: Class is suitable for all levels.
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A Basic Study of Schwalm Embroidery with Barbara M. Kershaw
Taught by Barbara M. Kershaw (view bio)Barbara M. Kershaw has a passion for learning and sharing her knowledge of the many varied and wonderful forms of embroidery generally called whitework. She has taken many courses and classes from the EAC, EGA, and ANG. Barbara is certified as an EGA Master Craftsman in counted thread. She also studied in Germany at the Museum de Schwalm in 2005 and 2011. She has been teaching for over 20 years at various EAC national seminars, EGA national and regional seminars, guilds in Canada, America and Bermuda as well as two International teaching tours of the USA. Barbara is the author of EGA Group Correspondence Courses – Noel and Individual Correspondence Course Basic Study of Schwalm Embroidery. Her book Exquisite Schwalm focuses on Schwalm filling stitches.
ICC, Surface Embroidery
A Basic Study of Schwalm Embroidery introduces the student to the beautiful style of whitework from Germany known as Schwalm Embroidery.
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Avondale with Carol Currier
Taught by Carol Peao Currier (view bio)Carol Currier is certified by the National Academy of Needlearts (NAN) as a surface embroidery teacher. She served on the national board of The Embroiderers’ Guild of America (EGA) for eight years including as national President from 2007-2009. Carol is currently the EGA Chair of the Master Craftsman program in crewel embroidery. She was honored in the September 2018 Needle Arts as Designer Across America. Carol holds memberships in EGA, NAN, American Needlepoint Guild (ANG), and National Association of Needlework Teachers (NETA). She is a partner in a needlework shop in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
GCC, Surface Embroidery
Avondale is an exploration of a summer garden using basic crewel embroidery stitches in interesting combinations. Available as a GCC Lightning Round through August 31, 2022. Register here!
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Bargello and Design with Gail Stafford
Taught by Gail Stafford (view bio)Gail Stafford holds EGA Master Craftsman certifications in Canvas Embroidery, Color for Needlework and Design for Needlework. She is the author of Undulations II, an EGA correspondence course. She has been on the faculty of ANG and EGA seminars and has presented numerous programs for ANG and EGA chapters. Her current needlework focus is on translating scenic images into canvas embroidery designs, but she also enjoys Bargello. Her work has won many prestigious awards and has been published in Needle Pointers, Needle Arts, and Needlepoint Now.
GCC, Canvas
Bargello and Design is a course designed for intermediate and advanced stitchers who want to create their own square Bargello samplers. The class focus is to design a sampler, and Bargello is the type of canvas embroidery used in the design.
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Beginner’s Hardanger with Marion Scoular
Taught by Marion Scoular (view bio)Marion Scoular is a 3-year, Mark Excellent graduate of The Royal School of Needlework and a City and Guild’s Silver medallist. She has taught dressmaking in English High Schools, owned The Robin Hood Wool Shop for 13 years; taught Adult Education for Clemson University and has judged, lectured and taught in 49 states, Canada, Mexico and Australia. She is the author of many booklets and articles on Embroidery techniques
GCC, Counted Thread
On Beginner's Hardanger students will learn the basic techniques of Hardanger with the option of stitching in a solid color or experimenting with Watercolours®.
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Beginning Teneriffe Lace with Jonalene Gutwein
Taught by Jonalene Gutwein (view bio)Jonalene is EGA certified in Counted Thread. She is a member of our Indian River Chapter in Florida and has been teaching various forms of needlework since 1982 at EGA chapters, and events at the regional and national level. She has over sixty needlework publications under the name of Friends in Needlework and three retired EGA Group Correspondence Courses.
GCC, Lace
Beginning Teneriffe Lace will give you the basics of the beautiful needlelace technique of Teneriffe.
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Crazy Quilting with J. Marsha Michler
Taught by J. Marsha Michler (view bio)J. Marsha Michler is a nonfiction author of 13 printed books, and 8 self-published eBooks on the topics of crazy quilting, embroidery, silk ribbon embroidery, wire jewelry, and knitting. Her quilts have won awards at quilting shows, and her work has been featured in national magazines and other publications including our Needle Arts magazine. Holding a degree in Business Marketing, and three-quarters of a degree in fine arts, summa cum laude and dean’s list, she has taught classes on crazy quilting, embroidery, and wire jewelry. She actively pursues crazy quilting, embroidery, fiber spinning, knitting, fiction and poetry writing, ballroom dancing, stone wall building, and resides with her husband and dog in the beautiful and inspiring foothills of Southern Maine.
ICC, Quilting
Learn new skills in Victorian Crazy Quilting in this comprehensive Individual Correspondence Course that will bring you to a mastery level of this much-loved art and craft.
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Design for Needlework with India Hayford
Taught by India Hayford (view bio)India specializes in contemporary and ethnic surface embroidery techniques including Yemenite Jewish and Yemenite Israeli embroidery, clothing embellishment, and fabric collage. She also teaches courses on embroidery design, Middle Eastern costume construction and embellishment, and nontraditional needlepoint and blackwork. Her articles on these subjects have appeared in Threads and Needle Arts magazines. An EGA Certified Teacher, India is the recipient of two EGA Legacy Scholarships and one Research Fellowship Grant. In 2017, she presented a lecture on “Embroidery, Clothing, and Feminine Identity in Jewish Yemen” at the Casper College Humanities Festival and Demorest Lecture.
ICC, Design
Our Individual Correspondence Course Design for Needlework with India Hayford is for the technically adept embroiderer who wishes to create unique embroideries.
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Embroidery with Mixed Media with Laura Smith
Taught by Laura Smith (view bio)Laura Smith is an embroidery innovator, nationally known designer, and process style teacher.She holds the EGA Master Craftsman in Color and has served as chair for the Master Craftsman in Color Program since 2006. She is a past Chairman of Fiber Forum (2011-2015) and a former director of an arts center. Her education in chemistry has helped her to understand mixed media and textiles. Her website is www.Stitch4Fun.com.
GCC, Mixed Media and 3D
Study the amazing possibilities of four cool “new” mixed media materials on Embroidery with Mixed Media.
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Enchanted Summer with Linda Wyszynski
Taught by Linda Wyszynski (view bio)Linda Wyszynski lives with her husband, Dennis, in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and is the owner of Hearthside Creations, LLC. She is a professional needle arts designer who has over thirty years of experience as an artist creating freelance needlework projects for publication. She began her designing career by painting custom needlepoint canvases for local needlepoint shops in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is an author of needlework textbooks, magazine articles, twenty multi-author books, and The Complete Photo Guide to Needlework (Creative Publishing 2012).
Linda has always been active in the art and needlework community, including the following: CHA Designer Section Council, Board of Directors Society of Craft Designers, and Outreach After School Project program for St. Paul Needleworkers EGA Chapter, needlework teacher for EGA regions and local EGA chapters, Board of Directors Needlework Guild of Minnesota, Twin Cities Metropolitan Art Council Board, and Polk County North Carolina Community Arts Council Committee. She is passionate about needlework and continues to be active in national organizations. She is currently a member of The Embroiderers’ Guild of America (EGA) and The National Needlework Association (TNNA).
GCC, Mixed Media and 3D
Enchanted Summer is a mixed technique embroidery design utilizing a broad spectrum of supplies.
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English Smocking with Kim Sanders
Taught by Kim Sanders (view bio)Kim Sanders is an EGA certified teacher in crewel and surface embroidery and a Master Craftsman in surface embroidery and in smocking. She holds a degree in Textiles and Clothing from the University of Tennessee. Kim has taught at shops, chapters, EGA national and regional seminars and has authored four GCC, an ICC, and several Petite Projects. Her articles and designs have appeared in Inspirations, Needle Arts, Australian Smocking and Embroidery and The Smocking Arts. She filmed four embroidery focused segments of the PBS program, Creative Living with Sheryl Borden.
ICC, Smocking
On this Individual Correspondence Course, students will learn common smocking and accent stitches and master correct tension as they work a series of samplers.
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English Summer with Cheryl Sharp
Taught by Cheryl Sharp (view bio)Cheryl Sharp has been a member of the Washington DC Chapter of EGA since 1981. She took a wide variety of classes in her chapter, region and at National Seminars before focusing on surface embroidery. She particularly enjoys crewel embroidery and stumpwork, and she adds beads and metal threads to spice things up! She was chair of EGA’s 17th National Exhibit and has been a contributing editor of Needle Arts since 2008, writing the Design Across America series as well as project articles. In 2007, she co-authored A Sampler of Crewel Stitches after examining an embroidery from EGA’s collection.
GCC, Surface Embroidery
On English Summer you will learn how to prepare the fabric, transfer designs, and set up an embroidery on stretcher bars among other things.
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Fallen Leaves Sampler with Kim Sanders
Taught by Kim Sanders (view bio)Kim Sanders is an EGA certified teacher in crewel and surface embroidery and a Master Craftsman in surface embroidery and in smocking. She holds a degree in Textiles and Clothing from the University of Tennessee. Kim has taught at shops, chapters, EGA national and regional seminars and has authored four GCC, an ICC, and several Petite Projects. Her articles and designs have appeared in Inspirations, Needle Arts, Australian Smocking and Embroidery and The Smocking Arts. She filmed four embroidery focused segments of the PBS program, Creative Living with Sheryl Borden.
GCC, Surface Embroidery
Fallen Leaves Sampler teaches laid and filling stitches, continuing a rich tradition of wool embroidery that dates back to the Bayeux Tapestry.
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Finishing with Flair with Marion Scoular
Taught by Marion Scoular (view bio)Marion Scoular is a 3-year, Mark Excellent graduate of The Royal School of Needlework and a City and Guild’s Silver medallist. She has taught dressmaking in English High Schools, owned The Robin Hood Wool Shop for 13 years; taught Adult Education for Clemson University and has judged, lectured and taught in 49 states, Canada, Mexico and Australia. She is the author of many booklets and articles on Embroidery techniques
GCC, Finishing
Finishing with Flair is a notebook Group Correspondence Course covering three useful techniques for finishing needlework and instructions for lacing needlework for framing.
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GCC Encore: A Touch of Fall with Jane Ellen Balzuweit
Taught by Jane Ellen Balzuweit (view bio)Jane Ellen Balzuweit holds teacher certifications in pulled thread and counted thread with the Embroiderers’ Guild of America. She has taught at various EGA national and regional seminars, Embroidery Association of Canada (EAC) seminars and for The National NeedleArts Association (TNNA). She authored correspondence courses for EGA and American Needlepoint Guild (ANG) and designed a petite project for EGA. Jane Ellen has taught cyber classes for ANG and the Shining Needle Society, designed for Rainbow Gallery and owned and operated a needlework store for 35 years.
Group Correspondence Course: A Touch of Fall with Jane Ellen Balzuweit
GCC, Counted Thread, GCC Encore
A Touch of Fall is created using a 17th century white work technique, Dresden Lace, a combination of pulled thread and surface embroidery.
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GCC Encore: Ancestree with Carolyn Standing Webb
Taught by Carolyn Standing Webb (view bio)Carolyn Standing Webb has a degree in education but finds needlework much more rewarding to teach. She grew up in a home where art was a part of everyday life and creativity was encouraged. An EGA member of our Wasatch, Salt Lake City Chapter, she has been a needlework designer and teacher for over twenty years, teaching on the local, regional and national levels. She has a line of patterns available in retail stores. Several pieces of her work have been published in books and magazines and she has won a number of prizes for her needlework. She has her Master Craftsman in Counted Thread. Her goal is to share with her students her love of needlework and to help them relax and enjoy it.
GCC, Counted Thread, GCC Encore
On Ancestree you will work on a tree of life design that will feature five generations of your family.
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GCC Encore: Cosmos with Kim Sanders
Taught by Kim Sanders (view bio)Kim Sanders is an EGA certified teacher in crewel and surface embroidery and a Master Craftsman in surface embroidery and in smocking. She holds a degree in Textiles and Clothing from the University of Tennessee. Kim has taught at shops, chapters, EGA national and regional seminars and has authored four GCC, an ICC, and several Petite Projects. Her articles and designs have appeared in Inspirations, Needle Arts, Australian Smocking and Embroidery and The Smocking Arts. She filmed four embroidery focused segments of the PBS program, Creative Living with Sheryl Borden.
GCC, Surface Embroidery, GCC Encore
Cosmos introduces students to needle painting, one of the most realistic forms of surface embroidery.
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GCC Encore: Daydreams with Barbara Kershaw
Taught by Barbara M. Kershaw (view bio)Barbara M. Kershaw has a passion for learning and sharing her knowledge of the many varied and wonderful forms of embroidery generally called whitework. She has taken many courses and classes from the EAC, EGA, and ANG. Barbara is certified as an EGA Master Craftsman in counted thread. She also studied in Germany at the Museum de Schwalm in 2005 and 2011. She has been teaching for over 20 years at various EAC national seminars, EGA national and regional seminars, guilds in Canada, America and Bermuda as well as two International teaching tours of the USA. Barbara is the author of EGA Group Correspondence Courses – Noel and Individual Correspondence Course Basic Study of Schwalm Embroidery. Her book Exquisite Schwalm focuses on Schwalm filling stitches.
GCC, Schwalm
Join Barbara Kershaw in Daydreams, a Group Correspondence Course focused on Schwalm embroidery, a beautiful form of German whitework embroidery traditionally worked on an off white evenweave linen with white thread.
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GCC Encore: Desert Strands with Becky Autry
Taught by Becky Autry (view bio)Becky discovered EGA when the national seminar was in Denver, CO and she visited the education exhibit. She remembers standing in front of a pulled thread piece and thinking “this is what I want to learn”. She found the local chapter in Colorado Springs and my adventures began!
Becky has taught classes for her local chapter, local library, various EGA chapters, region seminars and the 2012 EGA National Seminar.
After retiring from the US Olympic Committee where she was Managing Director of IT, she became involved in EGA’s pilot program for Certified Appraisers which she co-chairs with Cheryl Christian.
She has served in volunteer posts in my local chapter in officer positions as president, VP/newsletter editor, secretary and treasurer and committee chair for exhibits, auction, education and luncheon. For the Rocky Mountain Region, she served as region director, secretary, treasurer, region seminar chair, region seminar registrar, and region retreat registrar. She has also served on the national level as Budget Director, Education Administrator, National Exhibit Chair for “Through the Needle’s Eye”, Bylaws Review Chair, 2008 National Seminar Treasurer and co-chair EGA Appraiser Certification program. Becky has been the recipient the Rocky Mountain Region Claire Award and the Gold Thread Award for the region.
GCC, Counted Thread, GCC Encore
Desert Strands combines 18 different stitches with blocks of Russian drawn thread.
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GCC Encore: Fall Colors, A Study in Rozashi with Margaret Kinsey
Taught by Margaret Kinsey (view bio)Margaret Kinsey is an EGA certified teacher in silk and metal thread embroidery. She is certified to teach Japanese traditional embroidery. She is the designated US teacher for the Kunimitsu Rozashi Studio and studies with Fumiko Ozaki. Margaret is the 2010 recipient of the national EGA Gold Thread Award and teaches at all levels of EGA. She teaches at national seminars and chapters of ANG and EAC. She was the 2012 keynote speaker and taught at the New Zealand Embroidery Guild Conference in Christchurch, NZ, and toured, taught, and lectured additional venues in New Zealand. Margaret chaired the 5th, 6th and 7th EGA International Embroidery Conferences. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from NAN, 2021.
GCC, Counted Thread, GCC Encore
Fall Colors is a study in traditional Rozashi embroidery. The leaves, the water, the water lines, the sky, background are a study in the stitches that are traditional to Rozashi. Available as a GCC Lightning Round through August 31, 2022. Register here!
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GCC Encore: Fandango with Barbara Kershaw
Taught by Barbara M. Kershaw (view bio)Barbara M. Kershaw has a passion for learning and sharing her knowledge of the many varied and wonderful forms of embroidery generally called whitework. She has taken many courses and classes from the EAC, EGA, and ANG. Barbara is certified as an EGA Master Craftsman in counted thread. She also studied in Germany at the Museum de Schwalm in 2005 and 2011. She has been teaching for over 20 years at various EAC national seminars, EGA national and regional seminars, guilds in Canada, America and Bermuda as well as two International teaching tours of the USA. Barbara is the author of EGA Group Correspondence Courses – Noel and Individual Correspondence Course Basic Study of Schwalm Embroidery. Her book Exquisite Schwalm focuses on Schwalm filling stitches.
GCC, GCC Encore
Fandango is focused on Punto Antico, one of many beautiful styles of Italian whitework embroidery.
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GCC Encore: Jacobean Fantasy with Kay Stanis
Taught by Kay Stanis (view bio)Kay Stanis is an internationally known fiber artist, designer, Master Craftsman, and Certified and Graduate Certified Teacher of EGA and Kurenai Kai Traditional Japanese Embroidery. She has been on the faculties of American Needlepoint Guild national seminars, Callaway School of Needlearts, Embroiderers Association of Canada, EGA national and regional seminars, Koala Conventions, South Australia Embroidery Conference, Embroidery 2000 (New Zealand), and many independent groups.
GCC, GCC Encore, Silk and Metal
Giving new interpretation to designs of the seventeenth century and blending them with the silk and metal of the twenty-first, in Jacobean Fantasy, we will create an exquisite floral design on silk fabric with detached sheer fabric.
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GCC Encore: Mythical Myrtle with Barbara Kershaw
Taught by Barbara M. Kershaw (view bio)Barbara M. Kershaw has a passion for learning and sharing her knowledge of the many varied and wonderful forms of embroidery generally called whitework. She has taken many courses and classes from the EAC, EGA, and ANG. Barbara is certified as an EGA Master Craftsman in counted thread. She also studied in Germany at the Museum de Schwalm in 2005 and 2011. She has been teaching for over 20 years at various EAC national seminars, EGA national and regional seminars, guilds in Canada, America and Bermuda as well as two International teaching tours of the USA. Barbara is the author of EGA Group Correspondence Courses – Noel and Individual Correspondence Course Basic Study of Schwalm Embroidery. Her book Exquisite Schwalm focuses on Schwalm filling stitches.
GCC, Surface Embroidery, Counted Thread, GCC Encore
Explore the magnificent stitches of Casalguidi embroidery in Mythical Myrtle. Available as a GCC Lightning Round through August 31, 2022. Register here!
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GCC Encore: The Princess and the Pea with Marion Scoular
Taught by Marion Scoular (view bio)Marion Scoular is a 3-year, Mark Excellent graduate of The Royal School of Needlework and a City and Guild’s Silver medallist. She has taught dressmaking in English High Schools, owned The Robin Hood Wool Shop for 13 years; taught Adult Education for Clemson University and has judged, lectured and taught in 49 states, Canada, Mexico and Australia. She is the author of many booklets and articles on Embroidery techniques
GCC, Counted Thread, GCC Encore
Teacher Marion Scoular's interpretation of the beloved fairy tale includes pattern darning, Blackwork, Hardanger (no cutting!) and a small amount of surface stitchery, all explicitly covered in a 26-page, well-illustrated booklet.
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Hearts for You with Denise Harrington Pratt
Taught by Denise Harrington Pratt (view bio)Denise Harrington Pratt is an artist and needlework designer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a passion for counted thread embroidery on linen. Denise has been teaching needlework since 1995. She has taught at Spirit of Cross Stitch Festivals, National and Regional Seminars for the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, Inc., and EGA chapters. She also has developed Group Correspondence Courses and Online Courses for EGA. Denise is an active member of the Southern Maine Chapter of EGA.
GCC, Counted Thread
Our Group Correspondence Course Hearts for You with Denise Harrington Pratt is an opportunity for the student to learn a variety of finishing techniques for use with counted thread work and to create a lovely four-piece set of needlework accoutrements. Available as a GCC Lightning Round through August 31, 2022. Register here!
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How Does Your Garden Grow? with Carol Currier
Taught by Carol Peao Currier (view bio)Carol Currier is certified by the National Academy of Needlearts (NAN) as a surface embroidery teacher. She served on the national board of The Embroiderers’ Guild of America (EGA) for eight years including as national President from 2007-2009. Carol is currently the EGA Chair of the Master Craftsman program in crewel embroidery. She was honored in the September 2018 Needle Arts as Designer Across America. Carol holds memberships in EGA, NAN, American Needlepoint Guild (ANG), and National Association of Needlework Teachers (NETA). She is a partner in a needlework shop in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
GCC, Surface Embroidery
How Does Your Garden Grow? is a study of basic crewel stitches and techniques. The design is worked on crewel linen or linen twill in your choice of color.
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Introduction to Metal Thread Embroidery with Kay Stanis
Taught by Kay Stanis (view bio)Kay Stanis is an internationally known fiber artist, designer, Master Craftsman, and Certified and Graduate Certified Teacher of EGA and Kurenai Kai Traditional Japanese Embroidery. She has been on the faculties of American Needlepoint Guild national seminars, Callaway School of Needlearts, Embroiderers Association of Canada, EGA national and regional seminars, Koala Conventions, South Australia Embroidery Conference, Embroidery 2000 (New Zealand), and many independent groups.
ICC, Silk and Metal
Our Individual Correspondence Course Introduction to Metal Thread Embroidery is an in-depth study of the techniques of metal thread embroidery that will introduce the student to the shimmer of real gold and silver on fabric.
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Keeping in Shape with Gwen Nelson
Taught by Gwen Nelson (view bio)Gwen T. Nelson joined The Embroiderers’ Guild of America in 1997. She is a member of the Louisville Chapter and a member of National Embroidery Teachers’ Association. She has served as the Tennessee Valley Region Director for four years, has chaired two region seminars and has served as the EGA national president. Gwen has been designing and teaching beaded pieces since 2000. She has taught both at the EGA chapter and region levels and at other venues outside of EGA. Gwen designed the pieces that were beaded by the thirteen region directors for the live auctions at the 2009, 2010, and 2011 EGA national seminars and the pieces that were donated by the EGA executive committee for the auction at the 2013 and 2014 national seminars. She also designed the 2013 national seminar logo beaded pin.
Gwen Nelson has been a teacher, Personnel Director for Jefferson County (KY) Government and a high school principal. Gwen has her doctorate In Administration and Finance from the University of Louisville.
GCC, Beading
On Keeping in Shape, the student uses various techniques such as circular and flat peyote to make a necklace with 13 three-dimensional beaded pieces.
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In Maharajah’s Elephant you will learn the technique of canvas appliqué and explore tent, rice, eyelet, swirl, mosaic, satin stitches, among others.
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Mark and Paint on Canvas and Fabric with Laura Smith
Taught by Laura Smith (view bio)Laura Smith is an embroidery innovator, nationally known designer, and process style teacher.She holds the EGA Master Craftsman in Color and has served as chair for the Master Craftsman in Color Program since 2006. She is a past Chairman of Fiber Forum (2011-2015) and a former director of an arts center. Her education in chemistry has helped her to understand mixed media and textiles. Her website is www.Stitch4Fun.com.
GCC, Mixed Media and 3D
On our Group Correspondence Course Mark and Paint on Canvas and Fabric, you will mark and paint one design onto needlepoint canvas and one onto silk fabric.
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More Than a Rose with Melinda Sherbring
Taught by Melinda Sherbring (view bio)Melinda Sherbring came to embroidery through her fascination with historical crafts. An aerospace software engineer until retiring in 2013, she now teaches needlework with designs rooted in history. She has written two EGA GCCs, taught EGA’s 2020 Extended Study Program, and was featured in the March 2018 Needle Arts magazine as Designer Across America.
GCC, Surface Embroidery
More Than a Rose is a small piece designed to introduce students to some stitches and raised work techniques used on English sweet bags ca. 1600.
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Online Class: Art of Petit Point on Silk Gauze with Natalia Frank
Taught by Natalia Frank (view bio)Natalia Frank is a self-taught stitcher and an award-winning needlework miniaturist. Her stitching journey started in her late 20’s with cross-stitch, and since then she has been discovering and studying other types of needlework. Attention to details that was borrowed from working in law enforcement institutions have brought her interest into Petit Point; she tried it and has been hooked ever since. What sparks her interest in Petit Point on silk gauze is that it is a challenge to depict as many details as possible in 1 square inch. Today she is lucky to be able to share her passion of Petit Point and the knowledge of working with silk gauze she gained through trials and errors with wonderful people, teaching small groups and individual classes at shows, seminars and in her little studio shop.
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
This class is intended to show basic methods and introduce the techniques of stitching on silk gauze and show its versatility. It is designed to help to learn about Petit Point, its stitches, techniques of stitching on silk gauze, starting and finishing the thread, needles, and threads, while working on a gorgeous flower project. Registration: November 3 - December 1, 2021. Class Schedule: February 2- 16, 2022
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Online Class: B Sampler with Dawn Donnelly
Taught by Dawn Donnelly (view bio)Dawn Donnelly is a mixed-media artist who enjoys incorporating other forms of art within needlepoint. She holds a teacher certification in canvas with the National Academy of Needlearts (NAN) and teaches nationally and locally for NAN, American Needlepoint Guild (ANG), and Embroiderers’ Guild of America (EGA). Dawn has been recognized for her excellence of work in numerous exhibits. She spends her time volunteering as membership chair and registrar for NAN, treasurer for NETA and president for ANG’s Magnificent Obsession Chapter. Several of her articles have been published in Needlepoint Now and Needlepointers. www.threadupdd.com
Online Course, Coming soon
In our online class B Sampler with Dawn Donnelly you will stitch a sampler of stitches containing the letter B in the title. Registration: September 7 - October 5, 2022. Class schedule: January 4 - February 1, 2023.
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Online Class: Box Making: Parisian Patisserie by Sarah de Rousset-Hall
Taught by Sarah de Rousset-Hall (view bio)Sarah de Rousset-Hall is a professional embroidery artist and teacher based in West Sussex in the United Kingdom.
Sarah graduated from the Royal School of Needlework’s Future Tutor Programme in 2020, where over 3 years studying at Hampton Court Palace she learned a wide variety of embroidery techniques including Goldwork, Blackwork, Whitework, Crewelwork, Silk Shading, Canvaswork, Applique, Stumpwork and Box Making. She also spent time in the RSN’s commercial studio learning conservation and restoration techniques.
Since graduating, Sarah has taught regularly for the Royal School of Needlework and elsewhere, both in person and online as well as working in the RSN Studio and taking on private commissions and art pieces. She also volunteers with the Broderers of St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
In February 2022 Sarah exhibited three art pieces at The Worshipful Company of Broderers Exhibition: The Art of Embroidery at the Bankside Gallery in London. Her Blackwork portrait of David Bowie, worked during her training is also currently on display at the exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the RSN at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.
Online Course, Coming soon
In Box Making: Parisian Patisserie by Sarah de Rousset-Hall you will create a beautiful embroidered box, reminiscent of the beautiful boxes seen in the patisseries of Paris, containing all sorts of delicate treats. Registration: October 5 - November 2, 2022. Class schedule: January 4 - February 1, 2023.
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Online Class: Brian the Bee with Hazel Blomkamp
Taught by Hazel Blomkamp (view bio)Hailing from South Africa, Hazel Blomkamp is the author of 8 – going on 9 – books. She has designed, written about and taught embroidery and beadwork for more than thirty years and is best known for her less conventional approach to embroidery and Crewel embroidery, in particular.
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
Our online class Brian the Bee with teacher Hazel Blomkamp is part surface embroidery, part beadwork. The honey bee is worked with surface embroidery, needle lace and needle weaving techniques embellished with three-dimensional beadwork flowers and leaves. The segments of the wings are filled with needle lace techniques worked as embroidery stitches using seven different stitches, with variations, all extensively covered and well described. Registration: Jan 6 - Feb 3, 2021 Class schedule: April 7-May 19, 2021
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Online Class: Candy Cane Christmas Decoration with Emma Broughton
Taught by Emma Broughton (view bio)Emma Broughton is a graduate of both the Royal School of Needlework Apprenticeship (2009) and The University of the Creative Arts (2012). Specialising in hand embroidery as well as screen printing and digital fabric design.
She is the Author of ‘Embroidered Boxes’ book published in April 2019.
Under the name Fairy Wren Embroidery, she teaches embroidery and box making classes, and offers a wide range of embroidery kits and undertakes commissions with her unique designs. Embroidered box making is her true passion because it combines her love of embroidery with 3D construction.
Online Course, Open Registration
In Candy Cane Christmas Decoration with Emma Broughton you will make a delightful 3D Felt and Goldwork candy cane Christmas decoration with stuffing to give it a realistic look. The techniques you will use to embroider the candy cane stripes include Pearl purl, Spangles, Chipping and Ladder stitch. Registration: August 3 - September 7, 2022. Class Schedule: November 2-16, 2022.
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Online Class: Creating a Pattern for Embroidery from Digital Images with Julie Carmen
Taught by Julie Carmen (view bio)Julie Carmen joined the Embroiderers’ Guild of America in 2019. She has a Master of Library Science with a Certificate in Archives earned in 2009, from Emporia State University. The major focus of her embroidery research includes over 25 years of Laid Work, applied to two main 13th Century illuminated manuscripts, focusing on the musical instruments played from this time period, and from the Portugal, Spain, and Northern Africa geographical areas. She fell in love with the easy process of Laid Work, applied to the historical images, which produces a relaxation feeling like coloring; instead of paper and crayons, she uses embroidery floss on fabric. The easy approach of Laid Work is a way to share the images she finds intriguing, with the vibrant colors of embroidery. She is interested in merging digital images with textile enhancement, to share this fascinating combination of fiber art with historical art. Giving history this fiber quality can offer insight to the changes of societies, cultures, and traditions over time.
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
In Creating a Pattern for Embroidery from Digital Images with Julie Carmen you will learn how to make your own unique patterns with the freedom of using the multitude of digital images available online. Lessons will include saving image, cropping, enlarging, and printing. Registration: November 3 - December 15, 2021. Class schedule: February 2, 2022 - March 30 of 2022.
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Online Class: Cunning Fox with Lizzy Pye
Taught by Lizzy Pye (view bio)Lizzy Pye is an embroidery tutor first and foremost, classically trained on the Royal School of Needlework Apprenticeship. In 2009 she was lucky enough to be one of the final six graduate Apprentices, finishing with a Distinction and very sore fingertips! She is proud to be a Royal School of Needlework tutor, and also teaches a lot of her own classes and private students. She is passionate about passing on her skills through teaching, and preserving both skills and heirlooms for future generations to enjoy. She has worked on some fascinating projects over the years, including the Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding gown and embroidery designs for the Royal Opera House. She was commissioned to write the Royal School of Needlework’s Essential Stitch Guide: Whitework, published in 2012, and in 2020 Crowood Press published her second book: Goldwork Embroidery, Techniques and Projects. Lizzy also runs an online shop through which she sells the embroidery products with which she loves to work, alongside her own range of embroidery kits.
Closed Registration
Cunning Fox with teacher Lizzy Pye is designed to enhance your whitework skills with practice in a variety of techniques. Begin with pulled-thread work, using four different stitches in different parts of the design to give texture and depth to the image. Then, work counted satin stitch to give a raised texture, imitating the long fur on the fox’s chest. Registration dates: January 5-February 2, 2022. Class Schedule: April 6 - June 15, 2022.
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Online Class: Cyclamen with Merrilyn Heazlewood
Taught by Merrilyn Heazlewood (view bio)Merrilyn is an internationally renowned hand embroiderer, designer, author and teacher. Magazine articles of Merrilyn’s work are regularly featured in publications in USA, Australia, and New Zealand. Merrilyn opened her first needlework shop in 1978. With an artistic heritage and a passion for hand work this was the starting point for a long creative and rewarding journey with needle, threads and fabrics.
Closed Registration
In our upcoming online class Cyclamen with Merrilyn Heazlewood you will create a decorative tile adorned with bright silk ribbon Cyclamen on all four sides. Registration: May 4 - June 1, 2022. Class: August 3-24, 2022.
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Online Class: Designing with Texture with Raven Fagelson
Taught by Raven Fagelson (view bio)Raven Fagelson learned to cross stitch as a child from her father. She loves teaching, especially that “Ah ha!” moment when a student grasps a new skill. Raven holds certificate in Technical Hand Embroidery from the Royal School of Needlework and a master craftsman in crewelwork but enjoys stitching many style, especially historic surface embroidery. Raven is a EGA Certified teacher in Surface Embroidery and Crewel.
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
This class will teach you how to see and add texture into your work by designing a monochrome crewelwork based on 17th century examples. You will learn step by step, using stitches you already know. You will discover how to identify the texture of stitches, learn how to alter them to your liking, and then apply them to a design. Registration dates: August 4, 2021 - September 1, 2021. Class schedule: November 3, 2021 - January 12, 2022.
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Online Class: Freestyle Hoop Embroidery with J. Marsha Michler
Taught by J. Marsha Michler (view bio)J. Marsha Michler is a nonfiction author of 13 printed books, and 8 self-published eBooks on the topics of crazy quilting, embroidery, silk ribbon embroidery, wire jewelry, and knitting. Her quilts have won awards at quilting shows, and her work has been featured in national magazines and other publications including our Needle Arts magazine. Holding a degree in Business Marketing, and three-quarters of a degree in fine arts, summa cum laude and dean’s list, she has taught classes on crazy quilting, embroidery, and wire jewelry. She actively pursues crazy quilting, embroidery, fiber spinning, knitting, fiction and poetry writing, ballroom dancing, stone wall building, and resides with her husband and dog in the beautiful and inspiring foothills of Southern Maine.
Online Course, Open Registration
Learn to doodle with stitches! Create a geometric design within a six-inch hoop using many different embroidery stitches. Create outlines- eight different outlining options are presented- and add rows of decorative stitches to them. Registration: July 6-August 3, 2022. Class: October 5-9, 2022
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Online Class: Geraniums with Merrilyn Heazlewood
Taught by Merrilyn Heazlewood (view bio)Merrilyn is an internationally renowned hand embroiderer, designer, author and teacher. Magazine articles of Merrilyn’s work are regularly featured in publications in USA, Australia, and New Zealand. Merrilyn opened her first needlework shop in 1978. With an artistic heritage and a passion for hand work this was the starting point for a long creative and rewarding journey with needle, threads and fabrics.
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
Our online class Geraniums with Merrilyn Heazlewood focuses on stitching bright, cheerful geraniums and it's a great option to use up some of your stash of threads! Registration: Oct. 7 - Nov. 4 | Class schedule: February 3-March 3, 2021
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Online Class: Goldwork Bracelet with Cynthia Jackson
Taught by Cynthia Jackson (view bio)Cynthia Jackson has been teaching, researching and writing about embroidery for over forty years. She is currently engaged in reproducing a 16th century embroidered garland. Her research is supported by the UK Textile Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London Janet Arnold Award. Cynthia is also an award winning textile artist.
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
In Goldwork Bracelet with teacher Cynthia Jackson you will create a lovely band bracelet from beginning to end. Registration: Nov. 4 - Dec. 2 2020 | Class schedule: Feb. 17 - Mar. 24, 2021. (New lesson posted weekly)
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Online Class: Hardanger Trio with Kim Beamish
Taught by Kim Beamish (view bio)Kim is a member of The Embroiderers’ Association of Canada, Embroiderer’s Guild of America and the American Needlepoint Guild. Kim is an EAC Certified Teacher in Counted Thread. She has her Mastercraftsman in Counted Thread with EGA. She is a counsellor for EAC. Kim enjoys designing pieces in a variety of techniques. She enjoys teaching as well as learning new techniques to incorporate into her designs. Kim has taught many age groups the enjoyment of needlework. Her pieces have been exhibited in the United States and Australia. She has won awards for her designs in Canada and the United States. Kim has had many designs published throughout the world including Inspirations and Just Cross Stitch magazines , and the books A Cross Stitch Christmas and Whitework Inspirations.
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
In our online class Hardanger Trio with Kim Beamish you will stitch a beautiful hardanger embroidery set including a box pin cushion, scissor fob, and needle book. Registration dates: Registration: March 2, 2022 - April 27, 2022. Class schedule: June 1 - August 10, 2022.
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Online Class: Hungarian Written Embroidery with Sarah Pedlow
Taught by Sarah Pedlow (view bio)Sarah Pedlow is an artist working with embroidery and cultural preservation. In 2009 while in Budapest for an artist’s residency, she visited the Ethnographic Museum and fell in love with the traditional clothing and embroidery. The visit inspired her to seek out women who stitch a particular style called Hungarian written embroidery in Transylvania, Romania, and start the education and preservation project ThreadWritten in 2012. She has been lecturing and teaching cultural embroidery workshops since 2014 and now leads stitching retreats in Europe. Residencies in Iceland; Oaxaca, Mexico; and Holland, as well as embroidery study in Ukraine and Portugal, inform her current practice. She holds an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and a BA in Studio Art and French Studies from Scripps College, Claremont, CA. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she moved to Amsterdam, NL in 2019 where she now lives and works. You can find her artwork at sarahpedlow.com.
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
In our upcoming online class Hungarian Written Embroidery with Sarah Pedlow you will learn írásos, a special style of Hungarian embroidery that dates back to the 1700s in Transylvania, Romania. Registration: September 1-October 6, 2021. Class schedule: December 1-15, 2021.
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Online Class: Kimono Revisited with John Waddell
Taught by John Waddell (view bio)John has been stitching for over thirty years and loves to teach and share almost as much as he loves to learn. Canvas work with the variety of opportunities is his ground of choice. His teaching assignments have included national ANG seminars, Callaway, retail shops, EGA regional seminars and individual guilds (ANG and EGA). John is the twice President of the National Embroidery Teacher’s Association, NETA. He is also a member of EGA’s Fiber Forum.
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
The kimono framework on Kimono Revisited with teacher John Waddell is a great place to learn new stitches and ideas as it is a project with multiple areas of learning. Registration: Dec 2, 2020 - Jan 6, 2021 Class schedule: Monthly lessons March 3, 2021 - January 5, 2022
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Online Class: Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe with Celeste Chalasani
Taught by Celeste Chalasani (view bio)Celeste Chalasani is a designer who specializes in stumpwork and teaches at chapter workshops and at regional and national seminars. Celeste has been published in Needle Arts, Piecework Magazine, and GPR Designers 2012.
Celeste is enrolled in the National Academy of NeedleArts (NAN) Teachers’ Certification program. “Teaching Stumpwork is a labor of love for me. I am passionate about sharing what I know. I approach teaching from the understanding that different people learn in different ways. I strive to provide clear written instructions with step by step color photos, orally explain the technique with color coded visual aids, demonstrate stitches and techniques, and work one on one with each student as they practice their techniques.”
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
In this class, students first learn to transfer the design using the “tissue paper” method. Then we’ll explore introductory Stumpwork embroidery techniques as students pad with stitches and wrap beads to create berries. Finally, we’ll finish the embroidery into ornaments using festive velvet ribbon. Registration: April 6 - May 4, 2022.. Class schedule: July 6 - August 3, 2022.
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Online Class: Lazy Summer Day with Judy Borreson Caruso
Taught by Judy Borreson Caruso (view bio)Judy Borreson Caruso stitched her first BDE piece in 2008 and fell in love with the beautiful threads. Now she designs and teaches BDE locally, regionally and internationally. Recently, Judy taught the EGA Online Studio class, Beginning BDE. Judy has taught BDE at the BDE International Guild Seminar for the past twelve years. She also teaches in the Madison, WI area and has taught at a Heartland Regional EGA workshop. Judy is a member and past president of the Madison Area Chapter of EGA and a member of the BDE International Guild.
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
A beginner-level surface embroidery design, Lazy Summer Day with Judy Borreson Caruso tempts you to smell the flowers and enjoy nature. Registration: July 7-August 4, 2021. Class schedule: October 6-20, 2021.
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‘Maple Leaves’ with teacher Susan Hoekstra offers a chance for the needleworker to work with a variety of composite and specialty stitches in this well-paced class. Registration: October 6 - November 3, 2021. Class Schedule: January 5 - March 9, 2022.
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Online Class: Queen Anne’s Lace with Katherine Diuguid
Taught by Katherine Diuguid (view bio)Katherine Diuguid is a studio artist specializing in hand embroidery, dressmaking, and textiles. Her current work investigates color theory and color interactions within stitching, especially goldwork embroidery. She has taught embroidery and textile workshops both nationally and internationally. She held a tenure-track position at North Carolina State University (2012-2017) until deciding to focus fully on her studio embroidery. She has been awarded artist residencies at the North Carolina Museum of Art (Fall 2017) and Penland School of Crafts (Winter 2018 and Winter 2019). Additionally, Katherine has had the opportunity to work on special projects for Durham Cathedral (UK) stitching Panel 10 of the new Open Treasures Cope and for the Art Institute of Chicago stitching a sampler based on their beautiful Burgo de Osma Altarpiece. www.katherinediuguid.com
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
This Queen Anne’s Lace design introduces students to the basic techniques of goldwork embroidery using a contemporary approach to traditional techniques. Worked on linen, it is part of Kat’s continuing “Weeds” series. Registration: February 2 - March 2, 2022. Class schedule: May 5-25, 2022.
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Online Class: Red Clover with Katherine Diuguid
Taught by Katherine Diuguid (view bio)Katherine Diuguid is a studio artist specializing in hand embroidery, dressmaking, and textiles. Her current work investigates color theory and color interactions within stitching, especially goldwork embroidery. She has taught embroidery and textile workshops both nationally and internationally. She held a tenure-track position at North Carolina State University (2012-2017) until deciding to focus fully on her studio embroidery. She has been awarded artist residencies at the North Carolina Museum of Art (Fall 2017) and Penland School of Crafts (Winter 2018 and Winter 2019). Additionally, Katherine has had the opportunity to work on special projects for Durham Cathedral (UK) stitching Panel 10 of the new Open Treasures Cope and for the Art Institute of Chicago stitching a sampler based on their beautiful Burgo de Osma Altarpiece. www.katherinediuguid.com
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
Incorporating variegated threads and stretched gilt wires with traditional embroidery and padding techniques gives this design a unique blend of traditional and non-traditional appeal. Registration: May 5-June 2, 2021 | Class schedule: August 4-25, 2021
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Online Class: Rosette with Arlene Cohen
Taught by Arlene Cohen (view bio)Arlene Cohen spends one half of her life as a middle school math teacher and the other half as a needlework designer and stitcher. Under the name WorksByABC (yes, her initials really are ABC), she designs and publishes cross stitch, blackwork, and canvas work patterns. She has also had cross stitch patterns published in Just Cross Stitch and XStitch magazines. You may have seen pictures of Arlene’s sixth grade students during a five-year time span when she was sharing in Needle Arts about her work with teaching students how to cross stitch for a community service project. Hundreds of Kissing Pillows were created by these students and given to deploying troops. A stitcher for her entire life, Arlene has also won numerous awards at ANG Seminars and at Woodlawn.
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
Our online course Rosette is an exploration of what is typically thought of as “specialty stitches” within cross stitch world. What happens if these are the only stitches used? This is very typical on canvas, but here is an opportunity to explore the effect on linen. Registration: December 1, 2021 - January 5, 2022. Class schedule: March 2, 2022 - March 16 of 2022.
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Online Class: Sashiko Sampler with Jacqui Clarkson
Taught by Jacqui Clarkson (view bio)Jacqui Clarkson has taught for EGA, ANG, quilt guilds, a Fine Arts college and museums in Canada and the United States. Her workshop and lecture topics range from Sashiko, threads, to historical aspects of needlework. She has designed pieces for national thread and fabric companies, and for national magazines and needlework books. She has been published in the ANG magazine. Jacqui is a Journeyman Level II in the Master Teacher Program of ANG. She has served in leadership roles within local and region level of EGA and ANG.
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
Learn to master the techniques as well as delve into the history of Sashiko on our three-lesson workshop. Registration: June 2 - July 7, 2021 | Class schedule: September 1 - September 29, 2021
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Online Class: Some Accumulation with Terri Bay
Taught by Terri Bay (view bio)Terri Bay, a teacher and designer from South Carolina, began teaching Ukrainian Whitework at Nordic Needle’s retreat. One class lead to another and now she has taught Ukrainian Whitework, Hardanger, Pulled and Drawn Thread and Blackwork at the EGA National Seminars, ANG Seminars, NAN, Regional Seminars, chapter workshops, and various retreats and other fun events. She was honored to be featured as the Designer Across America in the June 2018 issue of Needle Arts Magazine and will have a design in Needle Pointers in the fall of 2021. Terri is a member of EGA, EAC, ANG, and NETA. www.terribayneedleworkdesigns.com
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
Some Accumulation is a snowy white Handanger Embroidery piece designed for the needleworker with just a bit of Hardanger experience. Registration: Feb 3 - March 3, 2021 | Class schedule: May 5 - June 16, 2021
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Online Class: Winter Lights with Jennifer Riefenberg
Taught by Jennifer Riefenberg (view bio)Jennifer Riefenberg is an accomplished needle artist, meshing her love of the arts into new and varied mediums. She enjoys teaching, both the technical skills and the pure love and joys of art and creativity at the national, regional, and local levels. Jennifer holds teaching and judges certifications through NAN as a teacher/designer and judge as well as being on the board as the Assistant Director of Judging. She has won numerous awards for her needle art and other artwork to include a piece accessioned into the permanent collection at the Gregg School of Art & Design at North Carolina State University. Jennifer is also an artist with other mediums to include painting en plein air (from “life”) and photography and is a winner of national and regional awards with her artwork as well as her embroidery.
Closed Registration, Previously Offered
The magical warmth of lights in the cold, snowy winter months glow in this peaceful and engaging design. A splendor of stitches and the palette of blues and purples are complemented by the fiery, orange and gold flames. Learn some new stitches or possibly, new adaptations on some known stitches plus, you get to try out mesh tubing as an embellishment to your piece. Registration: March 3 - April 7, 2021 | Class schedule: June 2- June 23, 2021
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Papillon is an introductory course on filet embroidery. In this 5-lesson course participants will learn briefly about the history of filet work.
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Perfectly Counted Crosses with Carolyn Standing Webb
Taught by Carolyn Standing Webb (view bio)Carolyn Standing Webb has a degree in education but finds needlework much more rewarding to teach. She grew up in a home where art was a part of everyday life and creativity was encouraged. An EGA member of our Wasatch, Salt Lake City Chapter, she has been a needlework designer and teacher for over twenty years, teaching on the local, regional and national levels. She has a line of patterns available in retail stores. Several pieces of her work have been published in books and magazines and she has won a number of prizes for her needlework. She has her Master Craftsman in Counted Thread. Her goal is to share with her students her love of needlework and to help them relax and enjoy it.
GCC, Counted Thread
In Perfectly Counted Crosses you will learn how to create a sampler that will dazzle those who see it with perfectly executed crossed stitches.
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Rainbows Bend: A Course on Color Theory with Carole Rinard
Taught by Carole Rinard (view bio)Carole Rinard has studied color since she was in high school and has incorporated color theory in the clothing and textile classes she taught at the university level. She is an EGA Master Needlework Judge and a Color Master Craftsman. She has been active in all levels of EGA and has served on the national board. Since 1989, she has volunteered at the Santa Fe Opera costume shop where she has heard numerous designers and directors discuss color in costumes, sets, and lighting. She lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico with her husband.
ICC, Color Theory
From color wheels to how to use color in your own work, our Individual Correspondence Course, Rainbows Bend: A Course on Color Theory is a comprehensive study of color.
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Reticello Needle Book with Jonalene Gutwein
Taught by Jonalene Gutwein (view bio)Jonalene is EGA certified in Counted Thread. She is a member of our Indian River Chapter in Florida and has been teaching various forms of needlework since 1982 at EGA chapters, and events at the regional and national level. She has over sixty needlework publications under the name of Friends in Needlework and three retired EGA Group Correspondence Courses.
GCC, Lace
This Group Correspondence Course is the next step for the experienced drawn thread enthusiasts who wish to begin learning the technique of reticello. It incorporates the pulled 4-sided stitch, the cutting of threads in both directions, satin stitched edges, and needle weaving.
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In Shimmering Dreams, ever-larger sparkling squares rotate around a shiny central medallion to finish in a star silhouette.
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Silk and Metal Thread Embroidery with Kay Stanis
Taught by Kay Stanis (view bio)Kay Stanis is an internationally known fiber artist, designer, Master Craftsman, and Certified and Graduate Certified Teacher of EGA and Kurenai Kai Traditional Japanese Embroidery. She has been on the faculties of American Needlepoint Guild national seminars, Callaway School of Needlearts, Embroiderers Association of Canada, EGA national and regional seminars, Koala Conventions, South Australia Embroidery Conference, Embroidery 2000 (New Zealand), and many independent groups.
ICC, Silk and Metal
Our Individual Correspondence Course Silk and Metal Thread Embroidery is an in-depth study of the various techniques of silk and metal thread embroidery.
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Snowflake Ball with Denise Harrington Pratt
Taught by Denise Harrington Pratt (view bio)Denise Harrington Pratt is an artist and needlework designer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a passion for counted thread embroidery on linen. Denise has been teaching needlework since 1995. She has taught at Spirit of Cross Stitch Festivals, National and Regional Seminars for the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, Inc., and EGA chapters. She also has developed Group Correspondence Courses and Online Courses for EGA. Denise is an active member of the Southern Maine Chapter of EGA.
GCC, Canvas
The Snowflake Ball is a three-dimensional, beaded needlework ball. You don’t have to understand geometry to stitch this fun piece.
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Spring Splendor with Kay Stanis
Taught by Kay Stanis (view bio)Kay Stanis is an internationally known fiber artist, designer, Master Craftsman, and Certified and Graduate Certified Teacher of EGA and Kurenai Kai Traditional Japanese Embroidery. She has been on the faculties of American Needlepoint Guild national seminars, Callaway School of Needlearts, Embroiderers Association of Canada, EGA national and regional seminars, Koala Conventions, South Australia Embroidery Conference, Embroidery 2000 (New Zealand), and many independent groups.
GCC, Surface Embroidery
On Spring Splendor you will learn couching, filling with purls, blending long and short over padding and how to transfer your patterns and twist flat silk.
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Star-Spangled Puzzle Ball with Denise Harrington Pratt
Taught by Denise Harrington Pratt (view bio)Denise Harrington Pratt is an artist and needlework designer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a passion for counted thread embroidery on linen. Denise has been teaching needlework since 1995. She has taught at Spirit of Cross Stitch Festivals, National and Regional Seminars for the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, Inc., and EGA chapters. She also has developed Group Correspondence Courses and Online Courses for EGA. Denise is an active member of the Southern Maine Chapter of EGA.
GCC, Canvas
Star-Spangled Puzzle Ball offers the opportunity to discover the joy of taking counted thread embroidery into three dimensions by creating a “puzzle ball.”
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Sweet Bag Sewed of Silver and Gold with Melinda Sherbring
Taught by Melinda Sherbring (view bio)Melinda Sherbring came to embroidery through her fascination with historical crafts. An aerospace software engineer until retiring in 2013, she now teaches needlework with designs rooted in history. She has written two EGA GCCs, taught EGA’s 2020 Extended Study Program, and was featured in the March 2018 Needle Arts magazine as Designer Across America.
GCC, Surface Embroidery
Stitch an embroidered bag like the ones that were in style in England from the mid-1500s to the mid-1600s on Sweet Bag Sewed of Silver and Gold.
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Symphony with Barbara Kershaw
Taught by Barbara M. Kershaw (view bio)Barbara M. Kershaw has a passion for learning and sharing her knowledge of the many varied and wonderful forms of embroidery generally called whitework. She has taken many courses and classes from the EAC, EGA, and ANG. Barbara is certified as an EGA Master Craftsman in counted thread. She also studied in Germany at the Museum de Schwalm in 2005 and 2011. She has been teaching for over 20 years at various EAC national seminars, EGA national and regional seminars, guilds in Canada, America and Bermuda as well as two International teaching tours of the USA. Barbara is the author of EGA Group Correspondence Courses – Noel and Individual Correspondence Course Basic Study of Schwalm Embroidery. Her book Exquisite Schwalm focuses on Schwalm filling stitches.
GCC
Work on a beautiful, pulled thread set comprising of an embroidery pouch and smalls that will be a wonderful addition to your sewing basket. Available as a GCC Lightning Round through August 31, 2022. Register here!
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Taming the Stash Monster with Laura Smith
Taught by Laura Smith (view bio)Laura Smith is an embroidery innovator, nationally known designer, and process style teacher.She holds the EGA Master Craftsman in Color and has served as chair for the Master Craftsman in Color Program since 2006. She is a past Chairman of Fiber Forum (2011-2015) and a former director of an arts center. Her education in chemistry has helped her to understand mixed media and textiles. Her website is www.Stitch4Fun.com.
GCC, Mixed Media and 3D, Organization
Get your stash under control with our course Taming the Stash Monster: Clearing your stash, purchasing strategies, archival storage, inventory and more.
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Techniques for Canvas Embroidery with Diane Herrmann
Taught by Diane Herrmann (view bio)Diane Herrmann won EGA’s Gold Thread Award in 2015 and has taught within EGA, ANG and the Windy City Chapter of EGA both regionally and nationally. She has affiliations with EGA, ANG, NAN and NETA. Diane has several publications and presentations over the years to include “Diaper Pattern and Needlepoint” in Crafting by Concepts. Accomplishments and awards have been granted to include the Jean Thomas Howard Scholarship as a teacher in 2009 as well as NAN Exemplary in 2009, 2012 and 2015, among several other recognitions. Diane teaches one of EGA’s latest Individual Correspondence Courses: Techniques for Canvas Embroidery.
ICC, Canvas
Our Techniques for Canvas Embroidery Individual Correspondence Course is an in-depth study of the various techniques used in canvas embroidery.
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Thank Goodness It’s Finished with Kim Sanders
Taught by Kim Sanders (view bio)Kim Sanders is an EGA certified teacher in crewel and surface embroidery and a Master Craftsman in surface embroidery and in smocking. She holds a degree in Textiles and Clothing from the University of Tennessee. Kim has taught at shops, chapters, EGA national and regional seminars and has authored four GCC, an ICC, and several Petite Projects. Her articles and designs have appeared in Inspirations, Needle Arts, Australian Smocking and Embroidery and The Smocking Arts. She filmed four embroidery focused segments of the PBS program, Creative Living with Sheryl Borden.
GCC, Finishing
Thank Goodness It’s Finished teaches a variety of skills needed to assemble embroideries into their final form.
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The Art of Teaching Embroidery with Kay Stanis and Carole Lake
Taught by Kay Stanis & Carole Lake (view bio)About teacher Kay Stanis
Kay Stanis is an internationally known fiber artist, designer, Master Craftsman, and Certified and Graduate Certified Teacher of EGA and Kurenai Kai Traditional Japanese Embroidery. She has been on the faculties of American Needlepoint Guild national seminars, Callaway School of Needlearts, Embroiderers Association of Canada, EGA national and regional seminars, Koala Conventions, South Australia Embroidery Conference, Embroidery 2000 (New Zealand), and many independent groups.
About teacher Carole Lake
Carole Lake, from Austin, Texas, is an EGA-certified teacher who specializes in manipulating common and uncommon threads and stitches to create textured effects, with a special interest in the effect and symbolism of color. Her award-winning work has been displayed in exhibits throughout the southwest. She has been actively teaching and designing since the 1980s. A native Texan and graduate of Rice University, her enthusiasm for the needlearts has translated into a strong desire to exchange ideas, explore techniques, and share the love of stitching. Now retired from teaching in person, Carole is fond of mentoring upcoming teachers and passing along all the tips and tricks she learned over the years.
ICC, Teaching
Are you interested in becoming a better teacher? Do you have questions about developing classes, text, kits, or visual aids? Or do you have questions about the practical aspects of teaching, finances, contracts, time management or proposals? Then our Individual Correspondence Course The Art of Teaching Embroidery is for you.
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Virtual Lecture 20: The History and Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry with Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
Taught by Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer (view bio)Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer started embroidering when she was six years old, and learned many techniques from her mother, who was an avid embroiderer. When she took early retirement in 2011, she joined the Embroiderers Guild of America, and has taken advantage of opportunities to learn even more techniques. Sometime in the distant past, she learned about the Bayeux Tapestry, and put it on her bucket list. She finally visited it in 2018. Before her visit, she read a book about it, which raised questions, which led to reading more and more books about it, which led to answers or potential answers to some questions, but also to more questions. The material on the Tapestry was so fascinating that she decided to put together a talk about it, to share all these tidbits of knowledge (and questions!).
Virtual Lectures
This talk discusses its history, both the history depicted on the Tapestry and the history of the Tapestry over the almost 1000 years of its existence, including a few narrow escapes. Mysteries of the tapestry include questions about what some scenes depict (the Latin phrases on the cloth are sometimes very inadequate) and who commissioned, designed, and embroidered it. Date: Saturday, August 13, 2022 1PM Eastern Registration: July 11-18, 2022 1PM Eastern
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Virtual Lecture 21: Rozashi: A 1400 Year Old Needle Art from Japan with Margaret Kinsey
Taught by Margaret Kinsey (view bio)Margaret Kinsey is an EGA certified teacher in silk and metal thread embroidery. She is certified to teach Japanese traditional embroidery. She is the designated US teacher for the Kunimitsu Rozashi Studio and studies with Fumiko Ozaki. Margaret is the 2010 recipient of the national EGA Gold Thread Award and teaches at all levels of EGA. She teaches at national seminars and chapters of ANG and EAC. She was the 2012 keynote speaker and taught at the New Zealand Embroidery Guild Conference in Christchurch, NZ, and toured, taught, and lectured additional venues in New Zealand. Margaret chaired the 5th, 6th and 7th EGA International Embroidery Conferences. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from NAN, 2021.
Virtual Lectures
Rozashi is an ancient Japanese embroidery technique. Its origins are vague. It resembles Bargello/Florentine embroidery in our culture. The Japanese say it origins are in the Tempyo (700-799 AD) period. During the Tokugawa and Meiji eras, as late as the 1820s, the ladies of the court considered Rozashi as the most refined art and handiwork. It was even called the hobby of the Imperial household. Date: Sunday, September 18, 2022 1PM Eastern Registration: August 15-22, 2022 1PM Eastern
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Virtual Lecture 22: Creating Needlework Maps with Catherine Jordan
Taught by Catherine Jordan (view bio)Catherine Jordan holds Master Craftsman certifications in the counted thread, crewel, color, and design programs of EGA. She is currently chair of the Master Craftsman design program and Master Craftsman Coordinator. Catherine is a certified Zentangle® teacher and former juried member of EGA’s artists’ group, Fiber Forum. Catherine teaches at local needlework chapters and regional, national, and international seminars. www.CatherinesDesigns.net
Virtual Lectures
Come and enjoy this “show and share” lecture on creating needlework maps! You will see Catherine’s collection of commemoratively based needlework maps as she talks about the process of where ideas come from, what makes a valuable map, and the intricacies of designing, stitching, and painting needlework maps. Date: Sunday, October 9, 2022 1PM Eastern Registration: September 12-19, 2022 1PM Eastern
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White Iris is stitched using white or cream Pearl Cotton on matching 32-count Belfast linen. The mat for behind and around the piece adds a punch of color.
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White On White Crazy Quilted Wallpiece with J. Marsha Michler
Taught by J. Marsha Michler (view bio)J. Marsha Michler is a nonfiction author of 13 printed books, and 8 self-published eBooks on the topics of crazy quilting, embroidery, silk ribbon embroidery, wire jewelry, and knitting. Her quilts have won awards at quilting shows, and her work has been featured in national magazines and other publications including our Needle Arts magazine. Holding a degree in Business Marketing, and three-quarters of a degree in fine arts, summa cum laude and dean’s list, she has taught classes on crazy quilting, embroidery, and wire jewelry. She actively pursues crazy quilting, embroidery, fiber spinning, knitting, fiction and poetry writing, ballroom dancing, stone wall building, and resides with her husband and dog in the beautiful and inspiring foothills of Southern Maine.
GCC, Mixed Media and 3D, Crazy Quilting
White On White Crazy Quilted Wallpiece is an introduction to crazy quilting that presents this artful form of quilting with a small project.